⟵   Mine Your own Business

Mine Your Own Business series. Microcomputers, live data, found objects, electroluminescent LED panels, batteries and wires, dimensions variable.

The Mine Your Own Business series explore networked society as part of a continuum of capitalist-colonial entanglements. The first networked pieces of the series featured real-time cryptocurrency—btc miners questioning the utopian-speculative wave of crypto businesses that arrived to Puerto Rico after the 2017 hurricane, and seemed to take advantage of places in crisis. At the same time, these miners challenged the huge amounts of energy and computational power bitcoin requires; using the least, scattered into production waste —and therefore least 'successful'. The contemporary still life often consists of everyday found objects meant to enhance performance or pleasure.

Mine Your Own Business (8), 2022. Microcomputers, live data, found objects, electroluminescent LED panels, batteries and wires, dimensions variable. Installation view, forking paths exhibition at max goelitz, Munich. Images: Dirk Tacke

Mine Your Own Business (8), 2022. Installation view, Operational Excellence exhibition at the CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. 

Mine Your Own Business, 2018. Microcomputers, live data, found objects, electroluminescent LED panels, batteries and wires, dimensions variable. Image: Raquel Pérez Puig

BTC Monster, 2018. Energy drink, live bitcoin cryptocurrency miner, 9 volt battery, 32,4 x 10,4 x 8 cm. PersonalDataMine 002, 2018. Disposable coffee cup, microcontroller display with Google ads targeted ad categories, 9 volt battery, 13,2 x 24 x 8 cm. MarketValue 003, 2018. Cigarette box, live cryptocurrency market value display, 9 volt battery, 10 x 6,5 x 3,5 cm. BTC Medalla, 2018. Aluminum beer can, live bitcoin cryptocurrency miner, 9 volt battery, 12,4 x 10,4 x 8 cm. TargetedAd Fuel, 2018. Electroluminescent LED panel, 15,5 x 22 cm. Data Appropriation and Reality Mining 002, 2018. Electroluminescent LED panel, 26 x 2,8 cm. 

PersonaDataMine 002, disposable coffee cup, microcontroller display with Google ads targeted ad categories, 9 volt battery, 13,2 x 24 x 8 cm. Image: Raquel Pérez Puig

BTC Medalla, 2018. Aluminum beer can, live bitcoin cryptocurrency miner, 9 volt battery, 12 x 17 x 14 cm.

Rssi -66 dBm Ping Time 102ms (initial) Hash Rate ~ 4.55/s  Hashes Computed 2910/10m Location San Juan, Puerto Rico

PersonalDataMine 003, 2019, from the series Mine Your Own Business. Credit card, microcontroller display with Facebook targeted ad preferences, 9v battery, 21 x 13,2 x 3 cm. Image: Raquel Pérez Puig

Relentless.com, 2020. Online marketplace gift box, video rental VHS case, microcontroller with top net worth live display. 12.5 x 19 x 10 cm.

PersonalDataMine 004, 2019. Water Bottle, microcontroller display with market segmentation, 9 volt battery, 21 x 10 x 6 cm.

Marketvalue 005, 2019. Energy drink, live cryptocurrency market value display, 9 volt battery, 32.4 x 10.4 x 8 cm. Installation view, Futuro Modular exhibition at Rachel Uffner, New York.

Mine Your Own Business (Not Consent; Concealment), 2019. Microcomputers, live data, found objects, batteries and wires, 24 x 30 x 10 cm. Installation view, The Scaleability Project exhibition at A.I.R., New York.

Mine Your Own Business (Rigged), 2022. Energy drinks cans, microcomputers, live data (top net worth, cryptocurrency pairs ticker, bitcoin miner), wires. 30 x 26 x 23 cm.

Mine Your Own Business (Still life with coconuts), 2023. Coconut water cans, microcomputers, live data—bitcoin miner, random miner, wires. 30 x 26 x 23 cm.